WASHINGTON (AP) - A former aide to Republican Rep. Trent Franks has told The Associated Press the congressman repeatedly pressed her to carry his child, at one point offering her $5 million to act as a surrogate mother.

SPINDALE, North Carolina (AP) -- In an unprecedented move, North Carolina&apos;s state child welfare agency will participate in reviewing every new allegation of abuse and neglect involving a controversial church that has been the focus of an Associated Press investigation exposing years of physical and emotional mistreatment of congregants, including children....

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- An Iowa teenager testified that his mother forced him and his two sisters to sleep on their bedroom floor in their own waste for months and that she refused to feed one sister in the days before she starved to death....

Tien Lam, a senior at Century High School, was among 200 students from 27 states and territories and nine countries selected to attend the prestigious 24th Annual Global Youth Institute held, in DesMoines, Iowa, in October. During the conference, Lam presented a paper he wrote on the food crisis...

Family members of a Utah man, who moved from Highlands Ranch to Utah and then helped form a religious/survivalist cult, say they are worried about the safety of his four children after they say he told them he would kill the kids -- all under the age of 10 -- rather than let the government take custody of them.

CAIRO (AP) -- The U.N. is voicing alarm over the spread of HIV in Egypt, where the number of new cases is growing by up to 40 percent a year, and where efforts to combat the epidemic are hampered by social stigma and a lack of funding to address the crisis....

The US has a long history of educating economically vulnerable children in completely different ways than children who are wealthy, says Noliwe Rooks, author of Cutting School. The racial and economic segregation of schools is actually a lucrative business for companies that create these separate and unequal educational experiments with taxpayer funds and very little oversight, she explains.
Protesters demonstrate as Education Secretary Betsy DeVos speaks at the Harvard University John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum on "A Conversation On Empowering Parents" on September 28, 2017, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. DeVos was met by protesters both outside the venue and inside during her remarks. (Photo: Paul Marotta / Getty Images)
Why are schools in the United States more segregated than they have been since the mid-20th century? In Cutting School, a book that Naomi Klein calls "astounding" and Bill Ayers calls "smart" and "wise," Noliwe Rooks delivers a timely indictment of the corporate takeover and dismantling of ...

Westminster police are investigating what appears to be a murder-suicide that occurred sometime after 3:45 a.m. Saturday, when police say they first received a 911 call from a home near 85th Avenue and Lowell Boulevard.

It seemed to happen so suddenly. One minute Sasha Fleischman, an agender teen on their way home from high school, was dozing near the back of a city bus in Oakland, California. The next minute they were screaming, enveloped in a ball of white flames. The boy who put a lighter to Sasha’s gauzy white skirt, […]